Mayor Larisa Svechin's Sunny Isles Beach Budget Dashboard
Move the sliders to test a millage rate, a raise, a bigger or smaller police department, or any General Fund line. Every figure reflects the budget adopted September 15, 2026 at the second and final budget hearing; anything you change is shown in yellow next to the adopted figure.
What a home pays
Enter a home's net taxable value (after homestead and other exemptions) and try a city millage rate. The other taxing authorities use their 2026 proposed rates from the budget book's sample bill.
Find your property — pulls the real net taxable value from the Miami‑Dade Property Appraiser (Sunny Isles Beach only)
Full 2026 tax bill for this home
School Board 6.6230 · Miami‑Dade County 4.9677 · Fire 2.3965 · Environmental & Children's Trust 0.7209 · Library 0.2812. Actual bills also include non‑ad‑valorem assessments and the 4% early‑payment discount.
Where this home's city dollars go
The city tax above, allocated in proportion to the General Fund operating budget (it follows any changes you make in the explorer below). Click any row for detail. Community Development is shown by division, with what each collects in fees and what this home pays after those fees; Building is listed at $0 because it is paid from permit fees, not property tax.
Millage and taxable value, ten years
The rate has come down from 2.30 to 1.6514 since FY 17/18 — cut in seven of nine years, including each of the last six — while the tax roll grew from $11.1B to $19.5B. Your slider rate is drawn as the yellow endpoint.
City operating millage (mills)
Gross taxable value ($ billions)
FY 26/27 total millage, Miami‑Dade municipalities (selected)
Total millage includes operating, debt and miscellaneous levies of each municipality. Sunny Isles Beach's 1.6514 is the lowest of the 35 taxing authorities in the comparison; Aventura (1.7261) is next. Note the FY 25/26 chip applies last year's 1.7000 to this year's roll.
General Fund explorer
Nudge any division up or down. The balance panel shows what it does to the year's draw on fund balance, and how many mills would cover the change instead.
| Division | FTE | Adopted | Adjust | Scenario |
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Personnel Services, Operating Expenses and Capital Outlay per division from the department pages. The pay slider scales the wage‑linked share of Personnel Services (salaries, overtime, FICA, retirement ≈ 88%); health, life and workers' comp are held flat.
General Fund balance sheet, this scenario
Same dollars, other ways
One mill on the FY 26/27 roll yields about $18.5M after the 5% allowance, so $1M of spending ≈ 0.054 mills ≈ $27 a year on a $500,000 home.
Where General Fund revenue comes from
Police Department
The single largest General Fund line: $21.0M as adopted, up 17.6% from the FY 25/26 adopted budget, with four added positions (85 FTE). Try a different headcount.
Police spending, four years
FY 24/25 actual, FY 25/26 adopted and projected, FY 26/27 adopted. Each FTE is costed at the department's average loaded personnel cost of $212,501 (Personnel Services ÷ 85).
FY 26/27 Police line items
Retirement contributions alone ($4.0M) exceed the department's entire operating budget ($2.6M). Software and computer‑system services grow from $106K adopted to $620K.
Building Department
Runs in its own Building Fund (140), paid by permit fees rather than property taxes. The book budgets $6.22M of spending against $5.42M of revenue, closing the gap from a fund balance that has fallen from $6.3M to a projected $1.2M in two years. Try a different permit volume or staff size.
Revenue vs. spending, four periods
Revenue excludes reappropriated fund balance. Spending includes the administrative chargeback to the General Fund ($1.60M last year, $0.82M as adopted, pending a fee study). FY 24/25 and FY 25/26 include the $1.5M–$3.7M Government Center Annex build‑out.
Fund balance at year end
Restricted to building‑code enforcement under F.S. 553.80; it cannot backfill the General Fund. At the adopted permit level the fund covers 87% of its costs from fees.
Workload (FY 24/25 actual → FY 26/27 target)
FY 26/27 spending by line
Operating rises $276K (+36%) for the Annex: R&M building $174K, electric $50K, water $29K, insurance $35K. Capital drops from $2.14M to $27.5K with the build‑out complete. Four trainee positions removed (−$406K); two intermittent plans examiners added.
FY 26/27 revenue by fee
Building permits are 77% of fee revenue; total permit and fee revenue is budgeted $1.2M below this year's projection (the building‑permit line alone $1.0M). State fee‑schedule changes take effect this year.
Who pays for what
Each department is paid from one fund, and each fund has its own source of money. Community Development is the case people ask about most: three of its four divisions are General Fund (property taxes and general revenue); the fourth, Building, is a separate fund that never touches property tax.
Community Development, division by division
| Division | Paid from | FY 26/27 cost | Revenue it generates | Net cost to general taxpayers | What that revenue is |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Code Compliance | General Fund | $940,458 | $918,000 | $22,458 | Code citations $350K, business tax receipts $315K, lien letters $100K, extended‑hour fees $80K, certificates of use $30K, special‑event and lane‑closure permits $40K, vacant‑property registry $3K — essentially self‑funding |
| Planning & Zoning | General Fund | $773,245 | $335,000 | $438,245 | Short‑term rental registry $285K and zoning hearing fees $50K. Comprehensive‑plan, Town Center and district visioning work is a general‑taxpayer service. |
| Parking Compliance | General Fund | $1,193,915 | $2,889,985 | −$1,696,070 | City lots, garages and meters $2.73M (Marco Polo $528K, Pier Park $380K, 175th St $300K, Gateway garage $200K …) plus parking fines $157K. Its operating budget includes $222K of FDOT revenue share and $130K of property taxes on leased lots. |
| Building | Building Fund | $6,215,611 | $5,424,000 | $0 | Permit and inspection fees $5.21M and interest $0.21M. The $791,611 shortfall comes from the Building Fund's own reserve, not the General Fund. Building also pays the General Fund $818,381 for payroll, IT, HR, legal and procurement services. |
| General Fund divisions | $2,907,618 | $4,142,985 | −$1,235,367 | The three General Fund divisions bring in $1.24M more than they cost. Add the Building Fund's admin charge and Community Development is a net contributor of about $2.05M to the General Fund. |
Shared oversight: the Deputy City Manager and her assistant are split 50% Building Fund / 50% General Fund (City Manager's Office). Revenue is attributed to each division exactly as the book's own division pages do (pp. 164, 168, 174, 280). Parking revenue is the parking system as a whole, which Parking Compliance operates.
Community Development, one division at a time
Every department, by the fund that pays it · FY 26/27
What feeds each fund
Salaries and benefits, all funds
Personnel Services are $47.0M of the $200.98M budget, +$3.8M from last year's adopted. The pay slider in the explorer applies here too.
Personnel Services by component
Staffing by division (FTE, all funds)
Cultural & Community Services jumps 8.4 → 22.0 FTE as Pelican Park, Gateway and Visitor Center staff are consolidated under it; Innovation & Technology adds 5.
Capital projects, FY 26/27
$44.1M programmed this year, of which $30.0M is carried over from projects already underway. New‑year appropriations by project:
Central Island Drainage is a $75M multi‑year program ($71M projected FY 27/28–30/31); Golden Shores undergrounding has $11.0M already spent through 9/30/25.
Line-item drill-down
Every budgeted line from every department page in the book — 700+ lines across the General, Building, Streets, Stormwater and Public Art funds. Search for a kind of spending to compare departments, or pick a department to see all of its lines.
By department
Matching lines
| Department | Line | FY 24/25 act. | FY 25/26 adopt. | FY 26/27 prop. |
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Source: departmental line-item pages of the FY 2026/27 budget book. Lines are shown as printed; account codes ending in X are roll-ups of several sub-accounts. Fuel for each department is budgeted centrally under Fleet Maintenance. Fund-balance and transfer lines are excluded.